What Is Drop Shipping? And How Does It Work?By Ian Atkinson May 9, 2016 | Retail | Comments(0)What is drop shipping? Drop shipping is a way to sell physical products without having a storefront or having to buy inventory in bulk but still getting a wholesale price from your supplier. Drop shippers can sell everything from t-shirts to TVs.Looking for step-by-step instructions to open a drop shipping business? Read our guide.Traditional, brick and mortar retailers, like Best Buy, have stores that they fill with inventory. They buy the inventory in bulk from suppliers, say 10,000 TVs from Sony. In exchange for buying the products in bulk, suppliers charge retailers a lower, wholesale price, say $400 per TV. Retailers make their money by marking up those products before selling them to their customers. Best Buy sells the TV they bought from Sony for $400 to their customer for $750. Best Buy just made $350.Drop shippers also sell a physical prod…

What Is Drop Shipping? And How Does It Work?By Ian Atkinson May 9, 2016 | Retail | Comments(0)What is drop shipping? Drop shipping is a way to sell physical products without having a storefront or having to buy inventory in bulk but still getting a wholesale price from your supplier. Drop shippers can sell everything from t-shirts to TVs.Looking for step-by-step instructions to open a drop shipping business? Read our guide.Traditional, brick and mortar retailers, like Best Buy, have stores that they fill with inventory. They buy the inventory in bulk from suppliers, say 10,000 TVs from Sony. In exchange for buying the products in bulk, suppliers charge retailers a lower, wholesale price, say $400 per TV. Retailers make their money by marking up those products before selling them to their customers. Best Buy sells the TV they bought from Sony for $400 to their customer for $750. Best Buy just made $350.Drop shippers also sell a physical prod…